§ 61.4 Definitions and use of terms. For the purpose of this part— ( a ) *The Act* means the War Hazards Compensation Act, 42 U.S.C. 1701 *et seq.,* as amended.
( b ) Office or OWCP means the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Employment Standards Administration, United States Department of Labor.
( c ) *Contractor with the United States* includes any contractor, subcontractor or subordinate subcontractor.
( d ) *Carrier* means any payer of benefits for which reimbursement is requested under the Act, and includes insurance carriers, self-insured employers and compensation funds.
( e ) *War-risk hazard* means any hazard arising during a war in which the United States is engaged; during an armed conflict in which the United States is engaged, whether or not war has been declared; or during a war or armed conflict between military forces of any origin, occurring within any country in which a person covered by the Act is serving; from— ( 1 ) The discharge of any missile (including liquids and gas) or the use of any weapon, explosive, or other noxious thing by a hostile force or person or in combating an attack or an imagined attack by a hostile force or person;
( 2 ) Action of a hostile force or person, including rebellion or insurrection against the United States or any of its allies;
( 3 ) The discharge or explosion of munitions intended for use in connection with a war or armed conflict with a hostile force or person (except with respect to employees of a manufacturer, processor, or transporter of munitions during the manufacture, processing, or transporting of munitions, or while stored on the premises of the manufacturer, processor, or transporter);
( 4 ) The collision of vessels in convoy or the operation of vessels or aircraft without running lights or without other customary peacetime aids to navigation; or
( 5 ) The operation of vessels or aircraft in a zone of hostilities or engaged in war activities.
( f ) *Hostile force or person* means any nation, any subject of a foreign nation, or any other person serving a foreign nation— ( 1 ) Engaged in a war against the United States or any of its allies;
( 2 ) Engaged in armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, against the United States or any of its allies; or
( 3 ) Engaged in a war or armed conflict between military forces of any origin in any country in which a person covered by the Act is serving.
( g ) *Allies* means any nation with which the United States is engaged in a common military effort or with which the United States has entered into a common defensive military alliance.
( h ) *War activities* includes activities directly relating to military operations.
( i ) *Continental United States* means the States and the District of Columbia.
( j ) *Injury* means injury resulting from a war-risk hazard, as defined in this section, whether or not such injury occurred in the course of the person's employment, and includes any disease proximately resulting from a war-risk hazard.
( k ) *Death* means death resulting from an injury, as defined in this section.
( l ) The terms *compensation, physician,* and *medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies* when used in subparts D and E are construed and applied as defined in the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 8101 *et seq.*).
( m ) The terms *disability, wages, child, grandchild, brother, sister, parent, widow, widower, student, adoption* or *adopted* are construed and applied as defined in the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, as amended (35 U.S.C. 901 *et seq.*).